Chapter 396 - 282: Qi Baiyu Falls into Demonic Ways, Gu Zhan Seeks to Kill Danyang
"Great, great, thank you, aunt. Your skills are impressive. That child Qi Baiyu is truly fortunate to have found you as his wife!"
After a brief chat, Granny Liu took the clothes and left.
The young woman was about to close the door and go inside when she caught sight of someone standing in the swirling snow out of the corner of her eye, causing her heart to skip a beat.
That person stood not far from the door,
yet neither she nor Granny Liu had noticed.
However, when the young woman saw the figure in the snow, she was so shocked that she dropped her needle and thread on the ground, a look of terror flashing in her eyes,
for the two of them looked exactly alike.
The young woman stared at the white-clad woman, identical to herself, as though immobilized by a spell.
The woman in white was Liu Baishi.
Liu Baishi scrutinized the woman almost identical to her for a while, then chuckled lightly, stepped over slowly, picked up the fallen needle and thread from the ground, and placed it into the young woman’s hands, calmly saying, "Is your name Fuling?"
The young woman, a bit flustered, took the needle and thread from Liu Baishi, her whole body tense, and nodded slightly.
She was the person who puzzled the entire Martial World,
a woman who had never appeared in the Martial World but was the subject of countless legends—a woman whom many in the Martial World wished to meet,
a woman who had led Sword Spirit Qi Baiyu to abandon the Celestial Sword Alliance, give up the Famous Sword Qianliqiu, renounce the Sword Dao, and retire.
She was Sword Spirit Qi Baiyu’s wife, a woman named Fuling.
Liu Baishi looked at the woman called Fuling and said, "The Martial World is abuzz with rumors that Qi Baiyu gave up everything for a very ordinary-looking farm girl. I really didn’t expect that in the eyes of Martial World people, I would be considered ordinary, that no one would recognize you with my face."
Fuling’s face turned a bit pale. After a while, she slowly said, "Very few have seen me, and they have never seen you, so no one knows we look exactly alike."
Liu Baishi said in a deep voice, "Precisely because of that, their evaluation is more impartial. Without the aura of Sword Armor Liu Baishi, I’m a bit hurt—I always thought I was quite beautiful."
Fuling kept her head down in silence.
Liu Baishi slowly reached out and lifted Fuling’s chin, examining her carefully, saying, "Upon closer look, there are indeed some subtle differences. Your face—it was probably the handiwork of Master of Medicine Xue Yimu with a knife, right? His skills have improved, nearly reaching the level of perfect resemblance. That old fellow!"
Fuling let Liu Baishi hold her chin and softly said, "Do you want to kill me?"
"Yes," Liu Baishi nodded.
Fuling swallowed and said, "I... I haven’t done anything against nature or reason, I..."
Liu Baishi interrupted, "I already know, so you don’t need to say more. I know who is behind you and what your purpose is. You are a person of Chengyang Marquis’s Mansion, approaching Qi Baiyu to make him abandon the Celestial Sword Alliance. Now, Chengyang Marquis’s Mansion should have taken control of the Celestial Sword Alliance and mastered the Eight Hundred Li of Wei River Land."
Fuling’s body was rigid, and with a plop, she knelt on the ground, saying, "I can leave."
Liu Baishi shook her head slightly and said, "I’m just curious as to how Chengyang Marquis’s Mansion thought of using a counterfeit me to make Qi Baiyu give up the Celestial Sword Alliance. Can you answer me?"
Kneeling on the ground, Fuling suddenly had a bewildered look in her eyes, as if very confused. After a long while, she slowly said, "The original plan wasn’t like this. It started when the Marquis’s planted spy in the Celestial Sword Alliance discovered a portrait of you in Qi Baiyu’s room, guessing that the rumors about your love at first sight for Qi Baiyu might be wrong,
Then, the Marquis found me, because I originally resembled you quite a bit. The Marquis then had Master of Medicine Xue Yimu make some modifications to my face and used some means to appear beside Qi Baiyu.
According to the Marquis’s original plan, they were to use Qi Baiyu’s affection for you, making me a substitute to whisper suggestions to choose cooperation with Chengyang Marquis’s Mansion. However, no one expected Qi Baiyu’s reaction to be so unexpected.
When he saw me, he directly proposed marriage, then abandoned the sword, and retired with me. This went more smoothly than the Marquis imagined, and taking over the Celestial Sword Alliance without Qi Baiyu was easy, but to prevent accidents, the Marquis let me stay by Qi Baiyu’s side."
At this moment, Fuling suddenly shuddered, looking up in surprise, saying, "What... what did you just do to me, I..."
Liu Baishi looked at Fuling kneeling on the ground and shook her head slightly,
This Fuling was just an ordinary person, without cultivation. It was easy for her to control her mind with mental techniques and find out what she wanted to know.
"You can die now!"
Liu Baishi calmly said a sentence, then pointed to Fuling’s forehead, and in that instant, the Sword Intent sliced through the flying snow.
"Stop!"
At that moment, in the swirling snow, a loud shout rang out.
A young man quickly ran through the snow,
It was the reclusive Sword Spirit Qi Baiyu.
"Liu Baishi, stop!"
Qi Baiyu shouted hysterically as he ran over.
Liu Baishi’s finger paused before Fuling’s forehead, turning to look at the running Qi Baiyu, snorting coldly,
For a moment, the flying snow changed dramatically,